{"id":80383,"date":"2018-07-05T07:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/bacteria-powered-solar-cell-converts-light-to-energy-even-under-overcast-skies"},"modified":"2018-07-05T07:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:02:30","slug":"bacteria-powered-solar-cell-converts-light-to-energy-even-under-overcast-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/bacteria-powered-solar-cell-converts-light-to-energy-even-under-overcast-skies","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria-powered solar cell converts light to energy, even under overcast skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bacteria-powered-solar-cell-converts-light-to-energy-even-under-overcast-skies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of British Columbia researchers have found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using bacteria that convert light to energy.<\/p>\n<p>Their cell generated a current stronger than any previously recorded from such a device, and worked as efficiently in dim light as in bright light.<\/p>\n<p>This innovation could be a step toward wider adoption of solar power in places like British Columbia and parts of northern Europe where overcast skies are common. With further development, these solar <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a>\u2014called \u201cbiogenic\u201d because they are made of living organisms\u2014could become as efficient as the synthetic cells used in conventional solar panels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-07-bacteria-powered-solar-cell-energy-overcast.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;07-bacteria-powered-sol...rcast.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of British Columbia researchers have found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using bacteria that convert light to energy. Their cell generated a current stronger than any previously recorded from such a device, and worked as efficiently in dim light as in bright light. This innovation could be a step toward [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}